In the Country of Last Things by Auster, Paul

Viking Adult, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket has some edge wear, protected by mylar cover. Spine tight, pages clean.

NY: Viking, 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Imagine an American city in the near future, populated almost wholly by street dwellers, squatters in ruined buildings, scavengers for subsistence. Suicide clubs offer interesting ways to die, for a fee, but the rich have fled with their jewels, and those who are left survive on what little cash trade-in centers will give them for the day's pickings. This enthralling, dreamlike fable about a peculiarly recognizable society, now in the throes of entropy, focuses on the plight of a young woman, Anna Blume. Anna has memories of a gentler life, but comes to the city in a "charity ship" to hunt for her missing brother. She first finds shelter with a madman and his wife and later experiences a brief idyll with a writer, Samuel Farr.Together they live in the deteriorating splendor of the marbled public library. Promise is ultimately rekindled when the survivors consider taking to the road as magiciansan… Read More

New York: Viking, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing. AS NEW.

New York: Viking, 1987. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Auster's dystopian novel of an urban America descended into near anarchy. First edition, NF in a VG+ jacket (rubbed, a minor scuff to top front corner).

New York: The Viking Press, 1987. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 188 pages. An early, and dark, novel from the author of "The New York Trilogy." A clean very near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and a remainder mark to the bottom edge of the pages and in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear.

Viking Penguin, 1987. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket, first printing 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

East Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Viking, 1987. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Fine/Fine dust jacket. First Edition. ISBN:0670814458..

Viking Adult, 1987-04-20. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed. Inscribed by author on title page. Hardcover and dust jacket. Small tears to jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Pages unmarked. 188 p. ; 22 cm. *Autographed by author.*

Viking Drill & Tool, 1987-04-20. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

Viking Adult, 1987-04-20. Hardcover. Good. 0.9000 8.4000 5.8000. SIGNED by the author. Personalized. Wear and tear to the jacket. Pages are clean.